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Title De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period : the authors of the commentaries / Matteo Valleriani, editor
Published Cham : Springer, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 396 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Chapter 1. Authors and Commentaries on The Sphere of Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 2. A Lathe and the Material Sphere: Astronomical Technique at the Origins of the Cosmographical Handbook -- Chapter 3. Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo. A Commentary to The Sphere with a Defense of Astrology -- Chapter 4. Francesco Capuano da Manfredonia. -- Chapter 5. Conrad Tocklers Research Agenda -- Chapter 6. John of Glogów -- Chapter 7. Sacroboscos Sphere in Spain and Portugal -- Chapter 8. Oronce Fine: From the Edition of Sacroboscos Sphere (1516) to the Cosmographia (1532) -- Chapter 9. The Reception of Cosmography in Vienna during the "Integral Humanism" -- Chapter 10. Borrowers and Innovators in the Printing History of Sacrobosco: The Case of the "in-octavo" Tradition -- Chapter 11. The Sphere of Elie Vinet and Guillaume des Bordes: Networks and Knowledges Building -- Chapter 12. André do Avelar and the teaching of Sacroboscos Sphæra in the University of Coimbra -- Chapter 13. Franco Burgersdijk (1590-1635): Author of the Dutch Tractatus de sphaera
Summary This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries complete with a rich context. The essays explore the educational and social backgrounds of the writers. They also detail how their careers developed after the publication of their commentaries, the institutions and patrons they were affiliated with, what their agenda was, and whether and how they actually accomplished it. The editor of this collection considers these scientific commentaries as genuine scientific works. The contributors investigate them here not only in reference to the work on which it comments but also, and especially, as independent scientific contributions that are socially, institutionally, and intellectually contextualized around their authors
Subject Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230. Sphaera mundi.
SUBJECT Sphaera mundi (Sacro Bosco, Joannes de) fast
Subject Astronomy -- History
European history.
History of mathematics.
Literature: history & criticism.
Interdisciplinary studies.
History of science.
History -- Europe -- General.
Mathematics -- History & Philosophy.
Literary Criticism -- Books & Reading.
Social Science -- General.
Science -- History.
Astronomy
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Valleriani, Matteo.
ISBN 9783030308339
3030308332